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Commentator Baxter Black says he wonders where Ford Motor is going with the naming of their new line of cars. He has a few ideas of his own.

Lisa visits with three teenagers in Vienna, Virginia, to learn about the ingenious uses to which they're putting Napster, the on-line music-swapping service. As they tell it, Napster is about more than just a free ride.

Poet Minton Sparks comes from a long line of strong Southern women. She praises them in her latest CD, Middlin' Sisters, and talks with host Lisa Simeone about what it was like growing up with women who had to hold their families together.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports President Bush's foreign policy team is not fully cohesive yet. Several policy positions articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell have been out of line with those later adopted by the president.

California's Governor Gray Davis announced his plan to avert the possible bankruptcy of his state's utilities. Mr. Davis proposes that the state buy the transmission lines from the utilities. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

Sixty years ago, the Japanese invaded the Solomon Islands, and a young British officer stayed hidden behind enemy lines to spy. He's one of the heroes of the Battle of Guadalcanal. For Radio Expeditions, NPR's Neal Conan has his story.

Hodge-podge is a word that comes from a rotten pot. It's derived from a term for mixed-up Scottish stew. Hodge-podge is also another in a long line of english reduplications, like the word honky-tonk.

It's been a rough time for radio stations that simulcast their programs over the Internet. A new contract for advertising actors, and a ruling broadcasters are not exempt from paying royalties for on-line broadcasts have forced many stations to stop their Webcasts.

The Senate Judiciary committee votes 10-8 along party lines to send Alberto Gonzales's nomination as attorney general to the full Senate. The Senate is expected to confirm the Gonzales.

In February, during the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a group of saboteurs disrupted Russia's supply lines by targeting the railway links between Russia and Ukraine.